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Eric, fascinating to see all these great locos in action.  Unfortunately it also showed a Lionel "low point" - not a loco.  In the SP GS freight set, the caboose was a NYC wood caboose, painted SP!  Historically, an iconic Lionel piece is the 027 sized SP caboose.  When I got the catalog and saw that NYC caboose, I immediately wrote Dave Olsen, a SP fan, in hopes they would do at least a modern steel caboose, even if not a SP prototype.  I also though it gave them the opportunity to do a scale version of the SP caboose.  Didn't happen.

So, I have a friend, who does great 3D printing, make me an accurate scale SP caboose.

And no, I did not buy the freight set (I did get a Daylight GS4, however, so Lionel still got my money)

@PeterA posted:

Eric, fascinating to see all these great locos in action.  Unfortunately it also showed a Lionel "low point" - not a loco.  In the SP GS freight set, the caboose was a NYC wood caboose, painted SP!  Historically, an iconic Lionel piece is the 027 sized SP caboose.  When I got the catalog and saw that NYC caboose, I immediately wrote Dave Olsen, a SP fan, in hopes they would do at least a modern steel caboose, even if not a SP prototype.  I also though it gave them the opportunity to do a scale version of the SP caboose.  Didn't happen.

So, I have a friend, who does great 3D printing, make me an accurate scale SP caboose.

And no, I did not buy the freight set (I did get a Daylight GS4, however, so Lionel still got my money)

Yeah, I'm weird because I just don't get bothered by stuff like that. I think it's because I'm actually more into the model trains than real trains, as weird as that sounds. But, yes, I could see how that would upset someone who cares about things being prototypically correct.

-Eric

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